I have a moderately long(for me at least) bash script file that that maintains a list of LAN users and the bandwidth each one uses. It is 199 lines with 11 functions and is already calling 3 different ...

I am creating app(script) that is used similar to RSS reader for specific webpage that doesn't have RSS.
So my app downloads that html page in defined intervals, checks new items and parses them into ...

I program CLI utilities in bash to automate much of my work as a DBA.
I would like improve my code and make it more robus,t maybe with the help of some static code analysis tool like the one I used ...

I am looking for feedback on the design of my program.
I have a shell script call function.sh that defines a lot of helper functions. My intent is to use those bash functions defined in functions.sh ...

What is the best method to use and share variables between functions in non object-oriented program languages?
Let's say that I use 10 parameters from DB, ID and 9 other values linked to it. I need ...

I am writing a shell script with a few variables that should be configured by the user. There will be an installer for downloading and configuring the script, possibly by asking a series of question. ...

This is some sort of follow up to an older question of me.
So I put the GPLv3 license into the project which contains my script and also added the copyright notice and copying permission statement to ...

I have FILE_A which has over 300,000 lines and FILE_B which has over 30 million lines. I created a Bash script that greps each line in FILE_A over in FILE_B and writes the result of the grep to a new ...

I have been developing web sites/applications using the LAMP stack for almost 5 years.
Currently I am interested to dig more into Linux OS, specifically BASH but from a web developer perspective, not ...

I want to ask the user of my bash script to pass a directory path as argument. Which one of the following is a good programming practice - to require that the user enter a trailing / (forward slash) ...